Two presentations will be made:

• Global EHS Training

• Current OEHS Situation and Challenges in Vietnam

PRESENTATION INFORMATION LINK

Workplace Health Without Borders - US Branch is inviting you to
a scheduled ZOOM meeting.
Workplace Health Without Borders is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 2022 3rd Quarter WHWB-US General Teleconference
Time: Aug 10, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89145737904

Meeting ID: 891 4573 7904

Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) participated in the British Occupational Health and Safety's (BOHS) first International Day as part of their annual meeting. The day’s message was “Connecting the Minds, Creating the Future” by addressing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Click this link to listen to all the speakers or focus on #7 to hear WHWB’s Jennifer Galvin speak to SDG #8, Decent Work.

Meeting invitations have been sent out to all members. If you are a member and have not recieieved the Zoom link please email us at Communications@WHWB-US.org

Meeting time is Eastern time zone

Opportunities!

Do you have experience, expertise, or interest in working with WHWB-US to promote occupational health and safety to underserved workers? Do you have experience, expertise, or interest in helping a public charity to maintain and grow? Whether you have a little time or a lot of time, want to work on a long-term project or simply provide a onetime input, WHWB-US would welcome your contribution. Three Board Member-at-Large Positions are Available The WHWB-US Branch Board of Directors is composed of four officers and up to ten board members-at-large. It serves as the steering committee for the organization. The principal responsibilities of the board are: To ensure that legal and financial responsibilities for incorporation and retaining our status as a tax exempt 501(c)(3) public charity are fulfilled. To select and oversee projects and programs to further our mission of providing the knowledge and means to promote occupational health and safety to underserved worker populations in the US and globally. To support and promote the organization and network with other organizations that share our mission. Board members are approved by the board and certified by the general membership. Board members will at a minimum: Be a dues paying member of the organization. Attend monthly virtual meetings lasting approximately 1 hour. Attend a 2.5 day, in person, annual review and strategic planning meeting generally held in October at the organization headquarters in Ann Arbor (virtual participation available to those unable to travel to attend).If interested in becoming a board member-at-large: Send a resume or letter of interest to the WHWB-US Board of Directors, c/o Cheryl Schiller, schillercm1@gmail.comTo learn more: consider monitoring all or part of our annual board meeting October 4 – 6, 2021. Contact Audrey Cunningham to be included in the ZOOM invitations, audreycunningham@gmail.com
Positions and Assistance needed on Projects 2022 and Committees 2022: Please contact the project or committee chairperson for position details or with questions or suggestions c/o Cheryl Schiller, schillercm1@gmail.com.

Projects 2022
Ethiopia Training: Albert Tien
Sustainable Fashion: Mary O’Reilly Vietnam Video Exposure Monitoring Project:Tuan Nguyen, Mary O’Reilly Healthy Nail Salons: Tuan Nguyen, Albert Tien,

Committees 2022
Communications, Website Maintenance: Eugene Satrun
Fundraising: Cheryl Schiller
Membership: Aubrey Arain
Training and Mentorship: Jennifer Galvin
Student Chapter Development: David Goldsmith
General Teleconference Scheduling: Audrey Cunningham
Publicity: Cheryl Schiller

Wednesday, July 28 via ZOOM
5:30 – 6:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Agriculture Work and Heat Exposure
Presenter: Ms Sammie Trvalik

Dear Members and Friends of WHWB-US Branch,We are delighted to have a presentation addressing excess heat exposure among farmworkers-- the presentation will be by Ms. Sammie Trvalik and will be hosted by the GWU-WHWB-US student chapter. The abstract below was accepted for presentation at the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) meeting August 23-26 at Columbia University ( Home | ISEE 2021 / 33rd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology). We will invite feedback on the talk so we can incorporate edits and improvements for the ISEE meeting. Also, we will welcome your questions about starting a WHWB-US student chapter.

Title: Impacts of Extreme Heat on Agricultural Worker Health: Economic Impact and Policy Implications. Arcadia Trvalik@, Sammie Trvalik+, Neve Brennan+, Alexis Carson$, Mary O'Reilly#, David F. Goldsmith$ [@ Johns Hopkins Univ School of Public Health; +Dickinson College; $George Washington Univ School of Public Health; #SUNY Albany School of Public Health]

Background: Extreme heat is known to severely affect human health, resulting in heat rash, heat exhaustion, acute kidney injury (AKI), mental health challenges, and even fatal conditions such as heat stroke. The existing regulations that protect agricultural workers against exposure to days of unsafe levels of heat in the workplace, which are forecasted to increase in severity and frequency with increasing wildfires in the next decade, are insufficient to meet the rapidly evolving challenge of extreme heat exposure. U.S. agricultural production, and reliant sectors, contribute $1.1 trillion to the U.S. GDP. The economic and health impacts of failing to adapt and enforce protective policies, resulting in workplace absenteeism and worker hospitalizations, could result in profit losses, changes to food production, and increased food prices.
Objective: This peer-reviewed literature review examined the effects of extreme heat exposure on health in agricultural workers, and the areas in which existing policy must be adapted for future heat projections.
Results: Policy interventions to create protections for these workers include provision of climate-controlled rest areas, adequate housing, hydration, health training, and appropriate workplace attire for agricultural workers. Considerations should also be made to other high-heat occupations (such as firefighters).
Conclusions: For a 2-4 degree Celsius temperature increase by approximately 2050-2100, the proportion of unsafe working days in the United States growing season range from 25-40%. Existing policy must be updated to reflect rapidly approaching, drastic changes to heat patterns.

Since 2016, WHWB-US Branch has been working collaboratively and supporting efforts to promote health and safety for workers, their employers, and their customers in the nail salon industry.   Our panel of experts for this discussion included Julia Varshasky, Aurora Le, Marie-Anne Rosemberg, Tuan Nguyen and Albert Tien. Nail salon workers are primarily women and often from ethnic, minority and/or immigrant communities with English as a second language.   They face reproductive, musculoskeletal and respiratory hazards in their workplace.  Nail salon workers are typically employed as contractors which increases their vulnerability to workplace hazards.

LINK TO WEBINAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4khg7c2osQI